Search results for "Ossie Davis"
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.6
132

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano
IMDb: 5.9
102

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 7.9
120

Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors….

Genre: Drama
School Daze

School Daze

School Daze
IMDb: 6.1
121

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel
IMDb: 4.9
93

Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she…

The House of God

The House of God

The House of God
IMDb: 5.6
108

Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named ‘The House of God’.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Harry & Son

Harry & Son

Harry & Son
IMDb: 5.8
117

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard’s lackadaisical…

Genre: Drama
Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
IMDb: 6.2
91

When a police department’s burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their…

Genre: Comedy
Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again
IMDb: 6.7
113

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However,…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
IMDb: 7.6
91

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Genre: Documentary
Slaves

Slaves

Slaves
IMDb: 4.8
110

A Kentucky slave (Davis) fights for his freedom from a cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins him and the other slaves in their revolt.

Genre: Drama
Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey
IMDb: 5.9
96

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen…

Genre: Comedy, Western
The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters
IMDb: 6.7
102

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Genre: Comedy, Western
A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam
IMDb: 6.6
99

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Genre: Drama, Music
The Hill

The Hill

The Hill
IMDb: 7.8
123

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It’s not a military objective. It’s The Hill, a…

Genre: Drama, War
Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment
IMDb: 6.6
94

A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.